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...pension-conscious reporter asked the Pentagon about the future pay of a few officers who are about to retire. The answer: Reserve Colonel Harry Truman, Field Artillery, will get retirement pay of $112.56 a month. His old friend and aide Harry Vaughan will retire with 75% of his major general's base pay, plus a 40% disability claim, which will bring his monthly check to at least...
Like his predecessors in the Pentagon's hottest seat, Lovett found that most of his troubles stemmed from the "contradictions and straddles" of the 1947 National Security Act, which "unified" the armed forces in name only. The Secretary of Defense, said Lovett, should be clearly designated as the nation's deputy commander in chief. His authority over the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be sharply established by law. He should eventually get his own staff of military advisers (now forbidden by law), and all unified commands in the field should report to him rather than to the Joint...
...yell/ But we fight like hell" there is now an inoffensive alternate: "But we'll fight, fight, fight/ Fight with all our might." The song will have its official unveiling this week when Secretary Pace introduces it on Jane Froman's TV show. After that, the Pentagon will wait three months to see whether it catches on. If not, the song board will look around for another...
...Chairman & President Harold S. Vance, gave a startling answer: nobody seems to have the faintest idea. Furthermore, the military apparently has not taken into consideration the fact that some items could be brought into full production in a few months, while others might require a year or more. Pentagon estimates, said the committee, "call for greater quantities of military hard goods than the supplies of materials and the manpower and production capacity of the nation could possibly support...
Further south, the husky infant is poking about the Pentagon, the Treasury building, and other, sites of high-level policymaking, as the new cabinet of industrialists prepares to match its chromium lances with assorted governmental dragons. And who else could be the author of the nation-wide myth which prescribes such a cabinet as the sole cure for the country's woes? Efficiency, perhaps, and a greater measure of honesty are plausible predictions, but only the new year's child could produce the visions of miraculous relief currently fashionable...